The Stetson Reporter

«*« The Stets PORTER Third Year—No. 12 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1937 Price 5 HATTERS TO TTLE FOUR SKETBALL SQUAD BEGINS PRACTICE AI! But One of Last Year's State Champ Outfit Returns Stetson's 1938 oagers took to the MESSIAH' GIVEN FOR THIRD YEAR Handel's Famous Oratorio to Be Delivered Again Sunday The first performance of the year p.ardwood court Monday afternoon wnjch includes all departments of at the call of Coach Chet Freeman to begin practice for the - coming basketball season, with all but one member of the 1937 State championship team returning. Strengthened by two junior college men, Francis Drake and John Griffith, and Vincent Schaeffer of last year's successful freshmen 'earn, the basketeering Hatters are expected to be a great deal stronger than last year's five which finished the season with fourteen victories jut of twenty ;wo games to their credit. Coach Freeman started the boys off Monday with iight limbering up exercises and snort drills in fundamentals. They will get down to heavy work some time next week. The schedule for the coming campaign has not been completed to date, but most of the 1937 opponents will be played and a two weeks trip through the Carolinas is >eing planned. This year's squad will be largely a junior group, since Dick Brasham arid jimmie Cagni are the only two seniors. . Frank Minehart, forward jf last year, is the only member of the State champs failing to return. Other members of last year's ream who are working out under Coach Freeman are: Tom Kirkland, Findiey Edge, Charles Cobb, Stew Ryan, Harold Vann and Gus Swanson. oseiak To Speak Before Legal Fra •Public ' Invited to Attend "' First Lecture Given Of'. Series.. Edward G. Posniak of the United 'States Department of Justce will initiate a series of addresses sponsored by the Sigma Nu Phi legal fraternity. He will speak tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the Commons Lounge. The subject of Mr. Pos- niak's address will be "Foreign Affairs and Internatonal Law". Being a graduate of the University of Berlin and the University of Paris, the speaker is well qualified to discuss the subject. He possesses a law degree from the latter university, Mr. Posniak only recently returned from Europe and is now assisting Prof. Paul E. Raymond in the compilation of material for a book that is being written "" for Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, a .research on paroles and pardons. the music school will be the presentation of Handel's "Messiah," on Sunday afternoon, December 12, at four o'clock in the University auditorium. Taking part in the program, which is being sponsored by the three music fraternities on the campus: Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Kappa Mu, are the University chorus under the direction of j Professor Harold M. Giffin, and \ the University Symphony orchestra under the direction of Professor William H. Bailey. The soloists for the afternoon will be chosen from the solo class composed of the following group: Ruth Archer, Henrietta Bryant, Sadie Rae Gardner, Helene Golding. Kath- erine Martin, Helen Walker, Rhoda Weimert, Findley Edge, Grafton Pyne, Lyle Sherman, and Woodrow Wall. In many places, it is a tradition for the "Messiah" to be presented every year at Christmas time. Many travel long distances in order to hear it because of this tradition. This is the third successive year that the "Messiah" has been presented at Stetson under the direction of Professor Giffin. In the preceding years the auditorium has-' been filled to capacity and many have been turned away. An even greater number is expected to attend this year. This promises to be one of the outstanding events of the music school this year, and all are cordially invited. There will be no admission charge. STETSON ROUNDS OUT FINE SEASON Win Five O'rt of Nine; Lose None by Wide Margin Coaches Brady Cowell (left) and Chet Freeman (right), Stetson mentors, who b.ought the Hatters through a successful season, climaxed with the victory over Rollins. STETSON DEBATERS WIN HONORS ROTH SI AND IN WINTHROP TOURNAMENT Stetson's Hatters eked out a 15 to 12 victory over Rollins last Friday night in Orlando to bring their 1937 football season to a close with the "Little Four" championship of Florida tucked securely under their belts, making it the second time in three years that Stetson has won the title. Harper and Baldwin Take Decision Over Northern Invaders HINESE FANTASY OPENS FRIDAY P.M. Extraordinary Oriental Play Offered by Little Theatre The program will be of particular Costume Shop. On Friday evening the curtain goes up on the Little Theatre production of "The Yellow Jacket," a Chinese fantasy by Hazelton and Benrimo. In this play we will find much of the bizarre. The property man, dressed in black, sits on the stage, smoking cigarettes and affecting boredom and invisibility, while his assistants noisily arrange the furniture. The decor, by Howard Bateson, is highly formalized, contrasting with the baroque costumes designed by the Johnston In the second annual debate meet with Dartmouth .Oolege,-held here last Saturday night, Stetson won its second victory. Harmon Harper and Richard Baldwin, speaking for the Stetson, gained a two to one decision over the New Hampshire speakers, Seymour Ellis and William Green. The subject of debate was one which is being fought throughout the east, reading, Resolved: that •the National Labor Rotations Board should be empowered to enforce arbitration in all industrial disputes. Ellis and Green, the Dartmouth debaters, advocated as one of their major points the substitution of a mediation board rather than one for arbitration. Harper and Baldwin were successful in bringing out facts to disqualify the suggestion. Judges for the occasion were Judge Maurice Foster, DeLand- the Rev. Jesse Lyons, of the Methodist: Church in DeLand, and Edward j Posniack, agent of the federal gov-' ernment, here to co-operate with [ Prof. Raymond in the compilation; of his book on penal practices in the United States. Robert Carswell, law student and Lydia Theurer Elected Strawberry Leaf Society To Lydia Theurer, jane Taft, Sara Elizabeth Clark, Gadi Lawton, and Gordon Kipp, with Dean Cotner, reV turned from the Strawberry Forensic Tournament held at Win- throp College bringing home new honor to Stetson. Lydia Theurer was made an honorary member of the Strawberry Leaf, honorary forensic fraternity, and.was declared winner in the first interstate impromptu contest, as well as winning the titles of Dixie Extempwizer, Dixie Impromptu A FULL) AsCCOUNTI OF| THE ROLLINS GAME) APPEARS |ON PAGE SEVEN. Miami, last year's title holders, played only two "Litte Four" games, winning from Stetson and losing to Tampa. Rollins won their only other game in the conference from Tampa, who was likewise taken for a ride by the Hatters, Stetson opened the season against Florida, losing 18-0, in a game that was closer than the score indicated. The Gators resorted to an aerial attack to win, their running having proved ineffective. Georgia Teachers fell before the Hatters in the second game by a score of 24 to 0. In the closing ' minutes of the next game, George McClelland scored on a sweep around end to defeat Tampa 18 to 12. In the fourth game, Erskine came from behind to defeat the Hatters 13-12. Erskine scored its first touchdown on a 10Qr..yard run with a fumble and scored the winning marker on a pass just before the end of the game. Miami Univer- plays Speaker, Charleston Extemponzer,, . . ... „ , „. , , „ . ,■-'-; i sity, trailing for three quarters, put Richmond Extemponzer, and At-1 lanta Extemporizer. Jane Taft won first place in both extemporaneous and impromptu- preliminaries, and. Gadi Lawton won a first in an impromptu preliminary Sara Elizabeth Clark won second place in the'poetry speaking contest. The judges declared that- she was a close runner tip, conceding! the first place by only a scant margin. Clark and Kipp also attended the model World Conference held at Winthrop. In-a symbolic ceremony, representatives of the thirty-five colleges participating" in the tournament .---.---- "■" """"'. '*" ""." i took part n a wedding Friday night. member of the debate team, Of-i^^. , „„.i__ _.._j w,-. _.,. . Related as chairman in the absence of Dean R. C. Cotner, who was in South Carolina with other Stetson debaters. Saturday night's contest was the second time that Dartmouth has in- | eluded Stetson in its southern tour of debating.: Although Stetson debaters have gained victories each time, many who attended this year's debate were of the opinion that in many ways this debate held greater merit than that of last year. .interest to the students'" of the,Law School, pre-law students and history majors. They are all; invited and the public will be welcomed. NOTICE The staff of the REPORTER w.'ll meet tomorrow, Thursday, sffornoon ni 'I'AZ «.m. in the REPORTER office in Science E:-M All members cf the staff, and others :'r>i^rt»3<.?d in wording1 with the newspaper, are urg- ed to be present. The incidental music to be played by the Stetson Sinfonietta will include "ReveS D'Orient," "Chinese Idylle" by Baron, and "Lotus Flowers'* by Parker. Dr. Stover is to be complimented on the clever program he designed. Working with a number of inexperienced players, Mrs. Giffin and Dr. Stover, with his Belasco technique, have brought out sorrie fine talent. Of the excellence of this production we need have no doubt, but to prtdict success is impossible. We Just Heard. . The Sigma Nu quintet will engage in a cage battle with the Independent team of Daytona Beach here tomorrow night in the Hulley Gymnasium. The locals will start the same line-up they used for intramurals. The Independents are composed of a group of ex-college basketeer and should give the frat men plenty of stiff opposition. There will'be no charge for admission. . Everyone is ■■ welcome. Gadi Lawton wed Winthrop, while Lydia Theurer was the means of matrimonially uniting Stetson ~with Eastern Tennessee Teachers College. Both the affirmatve and negative teams went through four rounds of decision debating. As the results are, tabulated they will be sent to the coaches to aid them in improving their teams. There were 227 delegates to the tournament. Dartmouth came from farthest north, Oklahoma from farthest west, while Stetson maintained its position as traveling the farthest north to participate. JOHNSON CHOOSES INTRAMURAL STAFF on a fourth period spurt to score two touchdowns and claim a, hard fought '25 to 13 victory from the Hatters. Stetson took a Homecoming battle from Lenoir-Rhyhe bv a score of 20-6 in the first meeting between the schools. The following week, the Hatters journeyed to Atlanta and dropped a 10-0 game to the Oglethorpe Petrels that was played in freezing weather. Lyn Warren returned to the Hatter line-up after a four game layoff and aided in taking the Mississippi College Chotaws into camp 14 to 6 on Thanksgiving Day. SEASON'S] SCORES Stetson Opp 0 Florida , 18 24 Ga. Teachers . 0 18 12 12 13 13 Miami . 25 20 Lenoir-Hlhyne. . 6 0 Op;lethope . . . . 10 14 Mississippi . . S 15 Rollins . 12 116 Totals .112 ART CLUB SPONSORS EXHIBIT OF PRINTS Carl H. (Doc) Johnson, director of intramural athletics, announces his staff of assistants for the cur- -ent year. They are: Lloyd Paw'ey, lajor sports manager; David Lang, ninor sports manager; Wilton Al- en, general intramural secretary, and Orrin M. Prince, recording secretary. A most interesting exhibition of Japanese prints, sponsored by the Hatters' Art Club, is open in the Apt Studio on the third floor of Science Hall every afternoon this week, until 4:30 p.m. The purpose of the exhibit is to bring more clearly before the student body the work: of the Art Department, and Miss Edith Harvey extends a cordial invitation to all to attend, All the prints n the exhibition are offered for sale..